Winnow Technologies

SCRAPERS & WEB-BASED DATA MINING

SURFACING ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS FOR SMART DECISION-MAKING

ABOUT WINNOW

Winnow Technologies Inc. provides governments and public agencies with new technologies to enhance decision-making through the responsible use of data science. Like a winnow removes grains from hulls and husks during the harvest, our technologies extract intelligence from noise to present policymakers, regulators and supervisions with trustable, digestible and actionable insights.

Products

We use modern web-based data mining tooling, natural language processing and advanced analytics to assist public agencies in fulfilling their mandates to citizens and support the development of inclusive, sustainable and resilient markets, economies, and societies.

The tools developed and deployed by Winnow Technologies allow the oversight of regulated firms and unregulated activities by scanning the web, social media, company reports and other communications to flag potential violation of policy and regulations, conduct sentiment analysis, and correlate collected information for supervisors on an ongoing basis.

FINANCIAL CONSUMER PROTECTION SUITE WITH WEB SCRAPER AND ML-BASED ANALYSIS

NEXT-GENERATION AI-POWERED, CHATBOT SUPPORTED, COMPLAINTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

FINANCIAL MARKET MONITORING VIA SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB EXTRACTION

IT security + DATA PRIVACY + data collection

Winnow is fully committed to the ethical and lawful collection of data, with a primary focus on user privacy and data security. If you require any further information or have additional questions regarding our data collection practices, please feel free to reach out.

Winnow follows a strict set of data collection policies and procedures when extracting information from social media and the internet. Our data collection methods are designed to exclusively target publicly available data. We do not access or retrieve any private or sensitive information, such as direct messages, private posts, or confidential content. Our scraping tools are configured to interact only with publicly accessible portions of platforms like Twitter, Meta (formerly Facebook), and LinkedIn.
We exclusively collect publicly accessible data, including but not limited to publicly posted tweets, LinkedIn posts, and other publicly shared content. Our scraping processes do not access or retrieve any information that is protected by privacy settings or encryption. We do not use any filters or criteria that would circumvent the public nature of the data.
We take data privacy and compliance with the guidelines and requirements issued by the respective companies very seriously. Winnow adheres to all terms of service and policies set forth by platforms like Twitter, Meta, and LinkedIn. Our data collection practices are fully aligned with the principles of user privacy, and we do not engage in any activities that violate applicable privacy regulations and laws.
To ensure the security of the collected data, Winnow employs robust security measures and practices. These include:
Encryption: Data in transit and at rest is encrypted to safeguard it from unauthorized access.
Access controls: We maintain strict access controls and restrict access to collected data to authorized personnel only.
Regular audits: We conduct regular security audits and assessments to identify and address vulnerabilities.
Data retention: We adhere to data retention policies, ensuring that data is retained only for the necessary duration and securely disposed of when no longer needed.
Incident response: In the event of a security incident, we have well-defined incident response procedures in place to mitigate any potential breaches.